Pizza, perhaps, can be attributed to one of the most popular and beloved by all generations of dishes in the world. Born in Italy, an open round tortilla with boldness boldly began to march from country to country, finding everywhere its fans and admirers. Who does not like pizza - with mushrooms, sausage, with cheese and tomatoes? There are even a few who are simply indifferent to her, but far from all are prepared. And all this is because many housewives do not know how to make pizza dough. The most delicious pizza is baked in wood-fired ovens, but we won’t go that far and will consider some options for baking this delicious product at home.
This dish appeared in Europe in the 16th century and in our time, accordingly, many different recipes for its preparation have been formed. Despite the various variations, there are still some basic criteria to give an idea of how to make pizza dough . The classic version of this test consists of water, flour, olive oil, yeast and salt. There are other recipes that have already formed as variations in the course of history.
Consider how to make pizza dough - several options.
- For cooking, it is necessary to warm milk (1 cup), add 20 g of fresh yeast and 2 without a spoonful of flour (tablespoons). Put in a warm place and wait for the appearance of foam. Then add another 400 g of flour and pour 3 tablespoons of olive oil into it, knead soft and elastic dough. You can take milk half with water, the taste of the dough will not deteriorate from this. You can also make the dough in advance, and put it in the refrigerator.
- The second option will tell you how to make pizza dough without using yeast. Here the eggs are beaten with salt, soda is extinguished separately in sour cream, mixed with eggs, then flour and butter are added and the dough is kneaded. Its consistency should resemble homemade sour cream. Then the dough is spread with wet hands on a greased baking sheet and the corresponding filling is applied.
No less loved in many countries, and especially in Russia, are pancakes. With cottage cheese, meat, potatoes and cabbage - with which women have not baked them for many years. Each hostess knows how to make dough for pancakes and each of them has its own wonderful recipe. They have one thing in common - flour, all other ingredients can vary significantly. One housewife makes pancakes in milk, another on kefir, someone with a lot of eggs, someone with a small, someone with yeast, someone without them. The main principle of this test: the flour is mixed in a small amount of milk (or kefir) so that there are no lumps, then it is diluted with the rest of the liquid to a homogeneous mass and the consistency of liquid sour cream. Then soda, salt, eggs, butter, sugar are added - to taste and pancakes are baked.
Another of our favorite dough products is pasties, which are not only fried at home, but sold on almost every corner. The most delicious, of course, homemade chebureks, moreover, every housewife knows exactly how to make dough for pasties, because this is the most important component of taste. Actually, the dough here is the simplest - water and flour, but the process of kneading the dough is time consuming, so far from all housewives, the pasties turn out to be equally tasty.
The dough for pasties must necessarily be dense and elastic, and for this you need to make a lot of effort. The flour is necessarily sifted on the table, salt is put in the center depression and a little water is poured. Gradually, the dough begins to knead, gradually adding water. When the dough has gathered in a ball, it must continue to knead until it becomes elastic and dense. Then wrap the dough in a film and refrigerate for about 1-2 hours. After the dough settles in the cold, get it, and then the filling prepared in advance. Next - fry pasties and enjoy the taste!